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In Australia we have a growing number of mums who leave at the 4-6 hour mark, but they are followed up by a community or domicillary midwife at home. To discharge they have to meet certain criteria, usually an uncomplicated delivery. We haven't seen an increase in readmissions. Many mothers find it more pleasant to be home. Having said that there is still a number of mums that stay longer, but we seem to have much shorter postnatal stays, usually 24-48 hours for a NVD or 3-5 days for a LSCS (Tending more towards the 3 days). But most women (if they choose) by a midwife at home for between 2-6 weeks. We also have, at least in my state a child and family health nurses who mums can access after the midwives finish.

At my last place of work a couple of years ago we thought it had to do with maternity leave since everyone there audited had just come back. Who knows?

We also have it in Australia, they call it Continuing Professional Development and we have to do 20 hours a year, except if you are dual registered (RN and Midwife) it's 40. I have no problem with the education and up skilling, but I find my two page reflections on said education a bit much, I don't think 'because I have to' would pass the audit.

You know what they say What's the difference between God and a surgeon? God doesn't think he's a surgeon.

Have only done neurosurg as a new grad, I didn't notice any especial bullying but then I was just trying to keep my head down. We had one reg who thought she was special, she got talked to by her consultant, so possibly there was some there, though it was kind of hard to tell. Would say neurosurg is not the only area it's a problem, it's just the first that someone stood up. In fact that seemed to be the message.

Just finished watching it. I wasn't really surprised by much of it. Will be interesting to see what the Royal College of Surgeons do in response, try and bury it or deal with it? Particularly ironic coming after the Australian Story before it.

Oh and the wards do have ac. But you will probably get better info if you can give an idea of the geographical area you want to work (hospitals in Australia are run at a state level so thing can vary depending where you are going to go) and what area of nursing you are looking at.

I am an Australian nurse, but I have worked in the UK so I might be able to answer some of your questions. I didn't find a huge difference in the style of nursing, though depending on where you worked in the UK and where you work in Australia you might find some differences in what you can do and how involved the doctors are,Mitch seems to be site specific. You may not find 12 hour shifts to be common, this again depends on where you work. Psych I know does them a lot in my state, and to a lesser degree ICU's and ED's, however often you will need to be permanent for a certain length of time before you can get 12 hour shifts. A lot of places, in my state, still do exclusively 8 hour shifts, though they have 10 hour night duties.

Wow, what is his rationale for delaying breastfeeding? Is this with term or prem babies? I have also never heard of aspiration risks with an SNS if it is used correctly, maybe he had an experience where it wasn't and it coloured his view? With the bottles, does he use formula or expressed breast milk - if it's formula you can always point out all the evidence about breastmilk being better. Does your hospital have BFHI accreditation? In Australia (where I work) once hospitals get this they have fairly strict policies that the staff have to follow, though this is not helpful if your hospital doesn't have it. Sorry not really sure what else I can suggest.